Overdose deaths often witnessed

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1:19 AM,
May 13, 2013

Written by

Russ Zimmer
CentralOhio.com

Lisa Roberts, a public health nurse in Scioto County, went digging through the death certificates of people who died from opiate overdoses in her county. She found that, when they slipped into a deep and eventually fatal sleep, they rarely were alone.

Of the county's overdose victims, 87 percent were with another adult at the time of their death, Roberts said during the Ohio 2013 Opiate Conference on April 30.